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Marine Insurance’s Risk Rating Revolution: Why Insurers Cannot Afford To Be Left Behind
According to container logistics company Maersk "everything that can be digitized will be digitized,"and there is no doubt that the world of shipping is currently undergoing a digital revolution. ...
A Deep Dive Into Willis Re’s Cyber Modeling Tools
Willis Re's proprietary PRISM-Re cyber modeling tool considers catastrophic as well as attritional losses to portfolios of risk. It employs a two-part framework for analysis of cyber threats. The ...
Cyber Catastrophe Modeling: Challenges of an Inexact Science
Insurers, their regulators and ratings agencies are increasingly aware of the potential for a catastrophic cyber loss. The aggregation of cyber risk assumed under policies providing affirmative or ...
New World of Digital Recruiting: Chatbots, Videos and Social Media
Long gone are the days when employees printed their resumes and cover letters on fancy paper, worried about choosing the proper font, and put both documents in the mail. The idea of employers ...
Improvements in Predictive Analytics Help With Early Identification of Workers Comp Reinsurance Claims
The early identification of claims likely to pierce reinsurance retention levels has long been a challenge for primary insurers and reinsurers. The good news is that over the past decade or so, the ...
Insurers Increasingly Leverage Reinsurance & Cat Models for Strategic Risk Management
With competitive reinsurance rates and abundant capacity, many insurers are choosing to expand their strategic reinsurance purchases to mitigate earnings volatility and better manage their capital. ...
How Insurance Is Rethinking Cat Modeling After Last Year’s Disasters
After Hurricane Harvey swept through Texas last August, it left behind not only an estimated $125 billion in damage and nearly 50 inches of rain in some areas but also questions for the insurance ...
When Disaster Strikes, Sustainable Insurance and Reinsurance Industry Vital in Uncertain World: Swiss Re’s Ojeisekhoba
Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore described it as "the first taste of a bitter cup that will be proffered to us over and over again." That devastating event ...